I’m loving the shiny media blogs already, or maybe just the one I’ve had a good old looking at: Dollymix. Its fab, and I reckon it does exactly what its meant to which is focusing on femininity, women’s rights, and all that stuff us girlies love without the shiteness of the oh-so-loveable celeb goss.
It goes from funny to serious, there are a variety of humorous clips from the one-and-only ‘youtube’ with spoofs of the famous Thelma and Louise (check it out), along with the more serious comment pieces by women writing for the blog.
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There is a links bit under the main navigation bar at the top of the page, which categorises the stuff that women apparently find important (I wont speak for everyone):
· Sex and relationships
· Health and beauty
· Women on top
· Politics
· Feminism
· Family
Don’t get me wrong, there are some bits about celebs, but its not a bitch fest of ‘she looks fat’ and ‘she’s had a boob job’ its questioning why these certain celebrity women are being slated, and relating to the topic in some way.
All the categories have the funny bits and the more series approaches.
In my opinion, this gives the blog a balanced agenda, the small articles are suitable for the easy read; maybe aimed at ladies at work, at leisure, on the train to work etc?
Overall working well as a blogzine.
Five or six posts are put up each day (on average) this is on the main page, they are all categorised instantly, so that the link bar (I was talking about) it updated straight away.
Advertisements fill the blog well, there’s not too many. (Which for me is always a bit of an issue, I don’t like it basically.)
Standard credit card ads, ‘lastminute.com’, ‘orange’, and an appropriate ‘celebs with no make-up on’ google ad at the top (yes, cheers google guys, makes us women feel better obviously) are the only main advertisements.
Personally, associating to companies I know which are advertising on a web page, instantly make me think about the popularity of the website;
Having ‘orange’ and ‘lastminute.com’ using Dollymix to advertise, gives the impression the website is widespread and frequently used.
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Commercial blog research...
These commerical blogs are basically for a specific niche market, aiming to fufill the readers knowledge of their interest with lots of articles relating to one theme. Alot of these blogs (mainly the Denton blogs) base their interest on 'hot celeb' goss; like that Hilton bird gettin her nipples out to boost her career... (if only it was that easy) Seriously its there on blogzine Gawker.
Most of the Denton blogs (thats Nick Denton) rely on their crap but heavenly addictive celeb 'news' to make some cash; Of course this then mirrors the joy of advertisements, the more hits Gawker (or any of the blogs get) the more ad companies will want to advertise = profit!
Other blogzines include 'DS Fanboy' which is dedicated totally to the DS console, not the games, the actual console (how much is there to know?) Jalopnik dedicates its blog to the love of cars, and then theres http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ which is a 'federated media site' which yes, does what it says on the tin...sells cool tools.
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Reviewing the tube
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Lonely girl.
SHES LOST ALOT OF BLOOD
Have these kids had a bit too much over indulgence of the Jerry Springer performance?
'Lonely girl' is a teenage drama series based on a bunch of kids who basically have indulged far too much Jerry Springer drama crossed with a large quantity of American shoot up movies.
From this episode on ‘youtube’, the storyline is quite unclear, if you haven’t seen the others in the ‘series’; basically a girl is shot, and her friends are fleeing from the crime scene with her.
The camera shots are blair-witch-esk to give the impression that the whole sequence is real (despite the fact the girl who has supposedly been shot, does in fact look like she’s taken a bag of mushrooms and couldn’t tell you her own name.)
The comments left are as disturbing as the footage, reading ‘is this real’? My response being, this couldn’t be more false without throwing Heather Mill’s leg in there.
It is well made, for an amateur series made for those who use youtube frequently; it is not boring to watch. Drama is good isn’t it? And that is why this youtube favourite ‘lonely girl’ will keep going; it is addictive, and fake. Just like Jerry Springer. And we love it!
Lonely girl.
SHES LOST ALOT OF BLOOD
Have these kids had a bit too much over indulgence of the Jerry Springer performance?
'Lonely girl' is a teenage drama series based on a bunch of kids who basically have indulged far too much Jerry Springer drama crossed with a large quantity of American shoot up movies.
From this episode on ‘youtube’, the storyline is quite unclear, if you haven’t seen the others in the ‘series’; basically a girl is shot, and her friends are fleeing from the crime scene with her.
The camera shots are blair-witch-esk to give the impression that the whole sequence is real (despite the fact the girl who has supposedly been shot, does in fact look like she’s taken a bag of mushrooms and couldn’t tell you her own name.)
The comments left are as disturbing as the footage, reading ‘is this real’? My response being, this couldn’t be more false without throwing Heather Mill’s leg in there.
It is well made, for an amateur series made for those who use youtube frequently; it is not boring to watch. Drama is good isn’t it? And that is why this youtube favourite ‘lonely girl’ will keep going; it is addictive, and fake. Just like Jerry Springer. And we love it!
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